A Powerful Purpose

RES is driven by passionate people with a common purpose—to protect, preserve, and restore our country’s precious natural resources.

We’re a diverse team of biologists, ecologists, GIS specialists, financial analysts, landmen, project managers and business folk—all working together to make the world even better than when we found it.

Management Team

Elliott brings over 30 years of operational excellence to his leadership role as President and CEO of RES, where he has focused the company on delivering land-based solutions that address the delicate balance of economic development and environmental stewardship. Recognized early as an industry leader, Elliott served on the Board of Directors of the National Mitigation Banking Association, where he was Chair of the Rules and Legislative Committee.

Bouillion earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. He soon founded Phoenix Computer Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced interactive high-resolution raster display controllers, later acquired by Zendex Corporation.

Bouillion later joined Landmark Graphics Corporation, culminating his twelve-year tenure in the role of corporate Vice President and General Manager, where he managed various technology and service divisions in Houston and London. Landmark completed an IPO in 1988, experienced revenue growth to over $190 million, and was later acquired by Halliburton.

Elliott has been both an active angel investor and an active participant on the board of directors of several growth companies including FRx Software (acquired by Microsoft), Ischemia Corporation (acquired by Inverness Medical Innovations), Object Reservoir (acquired by Halliburton) and Anark Corporation.

As a private equity investor, Bouillion was a general partner with Murphree Venture Partners. He was a founding sponsor and board member of the Houston Technology Council Energy Incubation and Acceleration Program and served as a board member of the Houston Private Equity Association (HPEA), where he is a Past President.

Elliott has served on the board of directors of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation since August 2013. In 2015, Elliott was named to the Executive Committee of the Committee of 100 for Louisiana, participating on economic development and fiscal reform initiatives.

David Joyce serves as Chief Operating Officer where he leads the company’s ongoing business operations. David joined RES in 2013 as Chief Financial Officer and provided leadership of accounting, finance, financial compliance and reporting activities. Prior to RES, he had successful career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was recognized nationally as the lead Transaction Services director for energy and related businesses.

In David’s 13 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he worked with manufacturing, engineering procurement and construction, oilfield services, and upstream, midstream, and downstream companies. David started in external audit and then spent ten years with the Transaction Services group where he gained extensive experience analyzing and evaluating contracts, earnings, forecasts and buyer/seller models.

His initial post-collegiate experience included financial reporting for a growing staffing firm including integration of acquired companies. David graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting.

Mr. Kelly is a graduate of Tulane University (B.A.) and a cum laude JD and MSL (Masters in Environmental Law) graduate of the Vermont Law School. As the founder and Director at Environmental Banc and Exchange (EBX), he has permitted and sold over $90m of environmental credits in the United States relating to wetlands, streams, endangered species and water quality. He has worked with numerous resource agencies, landowners, municipalities, investors and private and public credit buyers in the implementation of mitigation projects. He has worked on resource mitigation projects and negotiated and implemented mitigation banking instruments in Idaho, Montana, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, California, and Florida as well as drafted and negotiated land deals with over 100 landowners for resource mitigation projects. He has been a leader in promoting new policies at the federal, state and international levels relating to market-based solutions to achieve environmental objectives, including working on the recently promulgated federal wetland mitigation rules enacted in June 2008.

Mr. Kelly served on the Board for almost ten years and was elected President of the National Mitigation Banking Association (US) in 2009. Additionally, he was appointed to serve on the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Nutrient Trading Task Force, the Advisory Committee to the Water Quality Fund for the Chesapeake Bay and is a founding member of the National Water Quality Trading Alliance.

Prior to founding EBX in 1997, Mr. Kelly served as partner and member of the Environmental Law Group at the firm Ober, Kaler, Grimes and Shriver.

Russ is Executive Vice President, New Markets & Strategic Solutions. Russ joined RES in 2008 as VP, Business Development. He is responsible for providing leadership to the company’s business development, marketing, research, analysis and compliance activities.

Russ has over 30 years of experience developing new markets in technical, support, sales and marketing roles. Early in his career, Russ acted in technical support and marketing capacities with Marathon Oil, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Cray Research. He implemented successful global distribution channel and technology alliance programs with Sun Microsystems and BMC Software and acquired management experience as VP, Marketing with energy industry services and technology providers Knowledge Reservoir, LP and Object Reservoir, Inc. Russ also served as chief operating officer with law enforcement technology firm and led a publicly-traded holding company.

Russ holds a B.A. in Geology from Boston University and an M.B.A. from the Executive MBA program at the University of Houston. He publishes and speaks about addressing the environmental impacts faced by commercial and government developers and on technical and regulatory issues related to wetlands and ecosystem restoration. Russ was elected to the Board of Directors at the National Mitigation Banking Association in 2011 and served as chair, Marketing Committee from 2011-2013, Secretary in 2012 and Treasurer in 2013.

Randy leads company efforts to develop solutions for complex mitigation challenges in the species sector and other target markets. Randy joined RES with the EBX acquisition in 2014. Prior to RES, he led the development of the Carolina Heelsplitter Mitigation Bank and the Waccamaw Mitigation Bank, both precedent-setting projects for the South Carolina region, and provided oversight of multiple turnkey mitigation projects for major economic development initiatives in the area. In addition to his company responsibilities, Randy is a past President of the National Mitigation Banking Association and participates in the Association’s Rules & Legislative Committee. Past board positions include being the Founding Board Chair of the South Carolina Calvert Academy, a virtual public charter school serving the needs of over 300 elementary school children. He also speaks at a multitude of industry events, and is an instructor for the Conservation Leadership Network.

Prior to joining EBX, Randy was a Senior Vice President with TESSCO Technologies, where he founded three service businesses with combined annual revenues of over $250 million in 2004. He received his BSE from the Duke University School of Engineering, and MBA from the University of Virginia-Darden School of Business.

Frankie leads RES client engagement and account management activities. Frankie excels at developing mitigation solutions for clients that have unavoidable impacts to wetland habitats. His efforts have resulted in timely permits for clients with complex linear corridor and plant site projects throughout Louisiana, Texas and other RES operating regions.

Frankie joined RES as Sales and Marketing Administrator after a successful experience in the restaurant industry with Sullivan's Steakhouse. Frankie’s ability to forge meaningful relationships with clients and regulators has enabled him to enter a leadership role at RES, supervising sales professionals in multiple states.

He is a certified Wine Sommelier and obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University. Frankie graduated with the 2014 class of Leadership Lafayette -- a program designed to empower participants through community leadership.

Keller is Director, Field Operations and Regulatory for RES, managing all of the RES field restoration, operations and regulatory teams. A Baton Rouge native, his passion for the coast and conservation started at an early age while fishing the barrier islands of Louisiana with his grandfather; almost all of these islands are now eroded away. Watching this massive land loss with his own eyes drives him to continue to preserve, enhance, and restore as much land as possible.

Keller joined RES shortly after graduating with a B.S. Degree in Biology with a concentration in Environmental Science from Rhodes College. While at Rhodes, he led the football team’s defense as middle linebacker and was selected to represent the freshman class on the Team Counsel. His leadership continues off the field here at RES as he steers his teams to design, permit, prep, construct, monitor and maintain all of the company’s restoration sites.

Since his start at RES, Keller has overseen 8 million native trees across the US in 8 different states and has successfully put new projects in the ground every year at the same time. Concurrently, his teams have maintained all of RES’s previously constructed projects to ensure that each restoration plan is carried out correctly and that each site is achieving the performance standards required by the USACE. He is also very active in RES Nursery and Coastal Restoration projects and serves on the Board of Louisiana’s Coast Builders Coalition, a workgroup of professionals within the coastal restoration business.

David is the leader of the RES land acquisition team. David’s team works with landowners to qualify and deliver land-based solutions for wetland, stream, habitat and nutrient reduction restoration projects. David’s team operates across all RES operating regions.

Prior to his promotion, David was a successful RES land representative having directly acquired or managed the purchase of over 6,500 acres and 50+ miles of stream linear footage in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.

He joined RES after serving as a summer intern focused on RES Field Operations while attending the Louisiana State University. David, a Baton Rouge native, graduated from LSU in 2009 with a BS in Agricultural Economics. David is a licensed Louisiana real estate agent and active member of Ducks Unlimited.

Board of Directors

Robert Antablin joined KKR in 2005 and is based in Houston, TX. Mr. Antablin is head of the Americas Energy Private Equity team and serves as a member of KKR’s Energy Investment Committee. Mr. Antablin currently serves on the boards of directors of Haymaker Resources, Monterra Energy, Vine Royalty, Resource Environmental Solutions and Westbrick Energy. He has been involved with numerous private equity related investments at KKR, including East Resources, Eclipse Resources, Energy Future Holdings, Hilcorp Resources, Resource Environmental Solutions and Texas Crude, along with numerous asset-level oil and gas investments. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Antablin was at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the investment banking division in New York. Mr. Antablin holds a B.S. with highest distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Antablin is actively involved in a number of non-profit organizations and currently serves as a board member of the Hermann Park Conservancy in Houston.

Elliott brings over 30 years of operational excellence to his leadership role as President and CEO of RES, where he has focused the company on delivering land-based solutions that address the delicate balance of economic development and environmental stewardship. Recognized early as an industry leader, Elliott served on the Board of Directors of the National Mitigation Banking Association, where he was Chair of the Rules and Legislative Committee.

Bouillion earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. He soon founded Phoenix Computer Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced interactive high-resolution raster display controllers, later acquired by Zendex Corporation.

Bouillion later joined Landmark Graphics Corporation, culminating his twelve-year tenure in the role of corporate Vice President and General Manager, where he managed various technology and service divisions in Houston and London. Landmark completed an IPO in 1988, experienced revenue growth to over $190 million, and was later acquired by Halliburton.

Elliott has been both an active angel investor and an active participant on the board of directors of several growth companies including FRx Software (acquired by Microsoft), Ischemia Corporation (acquired by Inverness Medical Innovations), Object Reservoir (acquired by Halliburton) and Anark Corporation.

As a private equity investor, Bouillion was a general partner with Murphree Venture Partners. He was a founding sponsor and board member of the Houston Technology Council Energy Incubation and Acceleration Program and served as a board member of the Houston Private Equity Association (HPEA), where he is a Past President.

Elliott has served on the board of directors of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation since August 2013. In 2015, Elliott was named to the Executive Committee of the Committee of 100 for Louisiana, participating on economic development and fiscal reform initiatives.

Ken is a Member at KKR, helping assess and improve the companies in which KKR invests by engaging stakeholders & leveraging geopolitical & public policy trends. Ken also oversees the firm’s global external affairs, including corporate marketing, regulatory affairs & public policy, and communications. Ken leads KKR’s responsible investment efforts that seek to create shared value for KKR investors and other stakeholders. This includes a partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund that now includes more than 27 KKR portfolio companies and has achieved $1.2 billion in financial impact; reduced environmental impact (2.3 million fewer metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, 6.3 million tons less waste and 27 million cubic meters reduced water use since 2008); the hiring of more than 30,000 veterans in KKR portfolio companies; and an employee wellness collaboration with the American Heart Association. Ken also serves on the Board of Directors of RES.

Mr. Mehlman spent a dozen years in national politics and government service, including as 62nd Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Campaign Manager of President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, the only Republican presidential campaign in 25 years to win the popular vote. Michael Barone, author of the Almanac of American Politics, compared Mehlman’s success to Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s, particularly in their revolutionary approaches to identifying new customers and constituents. Before joining KKR, Ken was a Partner at the global law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Mr. Mehlman also served in high level positions in Congress and the White House.

Mr. Mehlman, who currently lives in New York City, graduated with a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Mehlman is Chairman of the American Investment Council, the association representing the private equity industry, a trustee of Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York, Franklin & Marshall College, Teach for America, Sponsors of Educational Opportunity (SEO), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and the Ideal School of Manhattan. Mehlman is also co-chairman of the American Enterprise Institute’s National Council and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alex Shih joined KKR in 2008 and is a member of the Americas Energy Private Equity team. Mr. Shih is based in Houston, TX, and holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Finance

Thomas Judice is the Controller of Resource Environmental Solutions. He holds a BS in Accounting and an MS in Finance from Louisiana State University. Thomas has over 5 years in public accounting experience working with local and regional firms in the tax, bookkeeping and audit areas. Prior to joining Resource Environmental Solutions, he was a senior external auditor for Postlethwaite & Netterville. Mr. Judice has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) since 2010. His professional affiliations include the Society of Louisiana CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.

Mac joined RES as a Financial Analyst in January 2014. Mac supports the RES management team. His contributions include financial forecasting and analysis, such as the development of management reporting tools and project valuation models. Prior to joining RES, Mac worked at Halliburton, where he was a member of its SEC Reporting and Accounting Research team, gaining experience in financial reporting, capital raising, investor relations, and foreign currency transactions. Mac graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Texas at Austin with Master in Professional Accounting and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees. He is a licensed CPA since 2011.

Amish Noorali joined the RES Houston office in 2015. In his current role as a financial analyst, he provides critical support to the management team with project valuation, management reporting tools, and financial planning, among other responsibilities.

Amish graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory University in Atlanta, with a triple major in Finance, Accounting, and Economics, and a minor in Arabic. He also completed coursework in Hong Kong and Morocco. Previously, Amish worked at Epic Systems, the leading provider of healthcare software, where he held a similar role. There he gained valuable experience in financial benchmarking, forecasting, management reporting, and variance reporting.

Thomas Weaver joined the Finance team in 2015 as Assistant Controller. Prior to RES, Thomas was a manager at the public accounting firm of Postlethwaite & Netterville, where he served a wide range of clients performing audit and attestation engagements. Thomas graduated from Louisiana State University with a BS in Accounting, and has been a licensed CPA since 2011. Thomas’ professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Society of Louisiana CPA’s, and is also a member of the Baton Rouge Ancient Athlete Society.

Christine is the Assistant Controller at RES. She joined the company as the Senior Accountant in August 2015. Prior to RES, she worked in public accounting at Provost, Salter, Harper, and Alford as a tax accountant helping clients with their tax and bookkeeping needs. Her background includes 3 years with Denmiss, L.L.C. as a staff accountant where she gained corporate accounting experience in the areas of financial reconciliations, internal audit, and cost accounting. Christine graduated Summa Cum Laude from Mississippi State University with both a Bachelor of Accountancy degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Risk Management, Insurance, and Financial Planning. She is a licensed CPA and holds the CGMA designation.

Legal

Stephen Colomb joined the company in 2013 as a Land Representative at RES Pittsburgh-area office. He earned his B.B.A. in Economics from the University of Georgia before obtaining his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. Prior to joining RES, he worked as a Crew Chief for J.P. Hesterly, Jr. & Associates in the Utica-Point Pleasant shale play. Stephen has been licensed to practice law in Louisiana since 2011. His professional affiliations include the American Association of Professional Landmen, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Professional Landmen’s Association of New Orleans, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, and the St. Thomas More Loyola Law American Inn of Court.

Renée serves as Staff Counsel providing legal support to the various business units of the organization. Renée joined RES in April of 2016 after five years at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation where she was in-house counsel for their E&P, Onshore Southern division helping to develop assets primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Prior to Anadarko she worked for five years as an oil and gas transactional attorney at several law firms in Texas and Louisiana.

Renée is licensed to practice law in Texas and Louisiana, and she is Board Certified in Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law in Texas. Renée obtained her BA in Government from Sweet Briar College in 2000, and her JD/BCL from the Paul M. Hebert School of Law at Louisiana State University in 2005.

Renée serves on the Steering Committee of Women of Wardrobe supporting Dress for Success Houston.

Market Research

Dheepa Jayakumar is a Senior Analyst at RES focused on delivery of threatened and endangered species habitat solutions. In this unique role, Dheepa works across RES geographies and engages with all RES teams. She uses her skills, expertise and experience to unravel complex assessment methodologies and inform habitat conservation planning and species mitigation solution delivery across the country.

Dheepa joined RES following an internship as a Data Analyst and a stint as a Development Analyst helping to analyze client markets. She has also served as the Regional Program Manager and Account Manager for Texas operations. She earned an M.S. in Finance and her Graduate Real Estate Certificate from the University of Houston and a B.S. Degree in Biology from Houston Baptist University, where she double majored in Biology and Business Administration.

Clark joined RES as an Analyst following a summer internship in the RES Houston office. Clark provides qualitative and quantitative analysis of company land assets, impact analysis of client projects and supports delivery of mitigation solutions. Clark graduated from the University of Virginia in 2013, earning both a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Environmental Sciences. Clark completed an internship with the U.S. Forest Service in 2012 where he conducted field surveys throughout the Sierra Nevada mountain range on various carnivore species including the Fisher (Martes pennanti) and American Marten (M. Americana).

Tanner works as an analyst in Houston contributing to demand analysis and market development activities. Tanner joined RES after completing an internship during which his efforts helped RES grow in the emerging water quality trading market.

Tanner has a BA from Southwestern University during which time he traveled and studied in Brazil and India. An active outdoorsman, Tanner has worked with the Texas Conservation Corps and with Austin Water Quality Protection Lands. Tanner is a certified wetland delineator, a certified permaculturist and an accomplished dog trainer. Having completed his graduate level coursework at Texas A&M University with emphasis on ecological restoration of wetland systems, Tanner will be completing his Masters of Science thesis work on landowner relations impact on NRCS Wetland Reserve Programs management and restoration goals in the upcoming months.

Brianna works as an Analyst in the Houston office assessing demand, tracking market development and estimating project impacts. Brianna graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tulane University in 2015 with a B.S. in Environmental Science and International Development. As an undergraduate, Brianna studied abroad in New Zealand, taking courses in coastal geomorphology and exploring the North and South Islands. While at Tulane, she wrote an undergraduate thesis on paleo-marsh response to sea-level rise in the Mississippi Delta. Prior to RES, Brianna interned with the Department of Energy, where she worked in the Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance, assisting in the development of a GIS management tool.

David joined RES as an analyst in May 2016. David began his career as a Carbon and Emissions analyst with Element Markets in Houston, where he prepared and maintained proprietary market information, compliance models, presentations, and monthly and quarterly reports to be distributed to clients. He served as the sole analyst for a five-person carbon and emissions desk where he engaged often with regulatory agencies and provided regulatory guidance to clients to maximize revenue via generation of environmental credits from renewable natural gas.

David successfully completed the Master of Professional Science, Environmental Analysis and Decision Making program at Rice University and earned a Bachelor of Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University.

David is schooled in ecosystem management and environmental statistics and decision making. He has focused education concentrations in International Development and Stream Ecology and interned with the Fish Biodiversity Research Programme in Nairobi, Kenya where duties includes field sampling, water quality analysis, and fish identification and genetic analysis.

Wesley joined RES in 2016 after competing two internships with RES. Prior to RES, while completing his degree programs, Wesley interned with both the International Association of Geophysical Contractors and Texas American Resources, an oil and gas company. Wesley completed a dual degree program at Texas A&M University with a Bachelors of Science in Renewable Natural Resources and a Bachelors of Science in Spatial Sciences, giving him a solid GIS knowledge base from which to succeed at RES.

Louisiana

Richard oversees the regulatory processes that enable delivery and supply of mitigation solutions for projects in the Gulf Coast Region. Based in the Lafayette office, Richard brings to RES 14 years of specialization in environmental compliance and biological investigations, primarily wildlife biology, wetlands, biological assessments, and permitting, including Section 404/401 permitting, FERC environmental reporting, NEPA compliance, and agency consultations for oil and gas exploration and production, pipeline and electric utility projects. He is certified by the Society of Wetland Scientists with Professional Wetland Scientist License 2142. Prior to joining RES, Richard was a Sr. Project Manager at SWCA Environmental Consultants, Environmental Project Manager with T Baker Smith, Inc., Vice President and Biological Division Head at Coastal Environments, Inc. and Ecological Scientist at John Chance Land Surveys, Inc. Richard graduated from the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1999 with a BS in Zoology and Wildlife Biology.

Justin works on client engagement and account management activities in Louisiana. Originally from DeRidder, LA, Justin graduated from McNeese State University with a Degree in Business Marketing and Finance in 2009. He moved to Lafayette to begin his career in the oil and gas industry as an Account Manager for GIS, where he spent 5 years with GIS working with many of the industry's leaders. Justin then worked for T Baker Smith as a Business Development Representative, focusing on the Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas territories. Justin is a member of Ducks Unlimited and is an active hunter and outdoorsman.

Ross is a Land Representative working from the Lafayette, Louisiana office. Ross has extensive experience, having worked with landowners in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio. Ross is a Registered Landman and Active Member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and the Lafayette Association of Professional Landmen. His experience includes lease acquisition, title research and curative work; he will be taking the Louisiana state real estate test in the upcoming months.

Drew is a field biologist executing wetland delineation and site monitoring activities that enable delivery of successful wetland restoration projects. Not only is he knowledgeable about wetland plant species and soil types, but also works extensively on monitoring and eradication of intrusive, invasive species. Drew’s activities take him across RES Louisiana and Texas operating areas.

Bryan is a wetland biologist based in the RES Lafayette office. He assists with wetland delineations, monitoring activities, and regulatory activities. Before joining RES, Bryan worked as a field biologist in academic research and as a consultant. His field experience includes brown pelican ecology and migratory bird projects, threatened and endangered species projects, and wetland delineations. Bryan graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2012 with a BS in Resource Biology and Biodiversity.

Brittany joined RES as she completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Brittany brings a mix of field studies and classroom analytics to RES, where she conducts market analysis and client development activities. She is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

Mark is a land representative working with landowners in Louisiana out of the Baton Rouge office. Mark previously worked as a petroleum landman and has 10 years of land acquisition experience. His projects, including title abstracting, land due diligence and environmental site assessments have taken place across Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and North and South Dakota. Mark is from Baton Rouge and graduated from the Louisiana State University with a BA in Political Science. Mark is a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen, the Baton Rouge Association of Professional Landmen, and the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association.

Bert Laprarie has over 25 years experience in environmental and natural resource-based geographical information systems. His background and work experience have included GIS, remote sensing and cartographical services within the environmental and natural resource field including state and federal wetlands permitting, coastal regulatory permitting, wetlands delineation, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) projects, farm management, utilities survey, land change analysis in coastal environments, beneficial dredge disposal siting analysis, site selection, various landfill designs, and RTK survey for digital elevation modeling (DEM).

Bert has over 20 years experience using advanced Autodesk AutoCAD software, over 10 years experience using vector and raster-based GIS such as ESRI Arcview software and Lieca Imagine, and 10 years experience with survey and map grade Trimble GPS data collection systems and associated software such as TerraSync and Pathfinder Office. Mr. Laprarie recently conducted training classes for various governmental agencies to integrate and use ESRI ArcPad software and Trimble-based GPS units for data collection.

Aaron is responsible for RES’ native tree and coastal marsh grass nursery. He supports other plant and soil science activities involved in restoring wetlands. Aaron is a key contributor to coastal restoration activities through Louisiana and the Gulf Coast as a leading supplier of restorative plant species including black mangroves and EKOgrown-branded species. Aaron holds a Masters in Oceanography from LSU and a BS in Agriculture Business from Louisiana Tech University. A 100-Ton Masters Captain, he has also owned and operated his own hunting and fishing guide service for over 10 years.

Glenn is Field Manager for RES. His responsibilities include wetland restoration, project supervision, construction and maintenance. Glenn assists in the evaluation of property and restoration planning. He is an on-site supervisor of work crews and supports the operation and maintenance of mechanized field equipment. Glenn has over 18 years of farming experience in Louisiana. He has owned several businesses including C&G Remodeling and Gremillion Heavy Maintenance and Welding Shop and is experienced in heavy equipment operation and maintenance. Previously Glenn worked as a foreman and salesman for National and International Sign Company. He is also a licensed real estate agent and a certified electrician.

Frank joined RES in May 2016 to provide leadership for Gulf Coast Operations. Frank spent the prior 6 years with CB&I 's Natural Resource Division where he was responsible for overseeing the design and construction of projects within the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) program. He managed project financials, schedules, and invoicing, while maintaining and cultivating strong client relationships. He has over 6 years of wetland permitting related experience that has been geared towards federal and state environmental regulations, policies, and procedures and was part of a biological team that identified and mapped critical habitat of endangered species along the gulf coast. Before CB&I, Frank was field manager for an 800 acre freshwater habitat land bank. Frank holds a Bachelors of Science in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from McNeese State University.

Bubba’s responsibilities include wetland restoration, construction and maintenance. Bubba assists in the evaluation of property and restoration planning. He is an on-site supervisor of work crews and supports the operation and maintenance of mechanized field equipment. Bubba has a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Business from University of South Louisiana. He served two years in the United States Army and has 30 years of experience as a grain, cotton and rice farmer and heavy equipment operator.

Brighton graduated from Louisiana State University in 2007 with BS in Natural Resource Ecology and Management, with an area of concentration in Wetland Science. Before joining RES, he worked for several years as a field biologist at a wetland consulting firm in Baton Rouge. Brighton has been certified in U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Wetland Delineation by Richard Chinn Environmental Training, Inc. Brighton uses a wide variety of skills at RES ranging from field biology to completion of regulatory instruments.

Wayne supervises workers and operates equipment on various field site restoration projects throughout the Gulf Coast region. Wayne and his teams conduct site-preparation activities that prepare land for successful restoration efforts. He is experienced in delivering safe heavy-equipment operations and maintenance.

North Carolina

Chad joined RES in 2015 to lead account and market development activities in North Carolina. He has tremendous experience with wetland and stream mitigation solution delivery in North Carolina through his more than 16 years at Kimley-Horn where he specialized in Environmental Assessment, Permitting, and Land Planning.

Chad graduated from Calvin College with a B.S. in Geology and received his Masters of Natural Resources from the North Carolina State University. Chad is a certified Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS), has competed Rosgen Stream Classification and Design Levels I-IV training and is certified in North Carolina Wetland Assessment Method (NCWAM). Chad is active in the Society of Wetland Scientists.

David Godley works in the North Carolina office where he is responsible for enabling the success of wetland, stream and buffer mitigation projects throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Prior to joining EBX in 2006, he worked as an Extension Research Technician for the North Carolina State University Biological Agricultural Engineering Water Quality Group. While at NCSU, David surveyed and collected morphology data and conducted vegetation restorations for multiple stream and wetland restoration projects. He spent his early career as an aquaculture research assistant and biologic sciences aid and holds a B.S. in Agricultural Business Management from North Carolina State University with a minor in Economics.

Daniel joined the company in 2015 to lead RES regulatory activities throughout North Carolina. Daniel has over 18 years of experience in natural resources consulting and project management. He has planned, managed, and executed a broad range of ecological projects including: compensatory mitigation, wetland delineation and permitting, NEPA documentation, endangered plant and animal surveys, and biological monitoring in upland and aquatic sites, largely throughout the Southeastern United States.

Daniel joined RES from WK Dickson Watershed Sciences where he had been serving as the senior project manager and program manager for the past six years. Earlier in his career, he was with Qore Property Sciences, EarthTech and CZR Incorporated. Daniel earned a BS Natural Resources from North Carolina State University.

Brian joined RES in 2015 and leads field operational activities in North Carolina. Brian and field operations teams prepare sites for restorative planting, plant restorative species, monitor site performance and manage invasive species to conform to site performance requirements.

Brian has a background in managing field crews and staff during field work and data collection. He has mapped and surveyed over 200 miles of stream and wetlands and developed permitting, construction and monitoring documentation for stream and wetland mitigation projects in North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.

Brian earned a BS in Bioenvironmental Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a Professional Land Surveyor, NC PLS L-5165, and a member of the North Carolina Association of Environmental Professionals.

Cara works in the Raleigh, North Carolina office where she manages mitigation credit sales activities and initiatives for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast region.

Prior to joining EBX in 2012, Cara was a science teacher for Wake County Public Schools and a Research and Teaching Assistant at North Carolina State University in the Natural Resources department. She earned her M.S. in Natural Resources (concentration on policy and administration) from North Carolina State University and both a B.S. in Marine Science and an M.A.T. in Science Education from Coastal Carolina University.

Judson joined RES in 2015 as a Land Representative in the North Carolina office. He has been a practicing attorney in North Carolina since 2009, where, prior to joining the RES team in Raleigh, he served clients in his home community of Caswell County with George B. Daniel, P.A., Attorneys at Law and as a sole practitioner. His experience includes civil litigation, performing title examinations, drafting real estate instruments and closing related transactions. Judson earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he graduated with honors. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and is a licensed North Carolina real estate broker.

Aaron Speaks ensures successful field operations through oversight, monitoring and maintenance of wetlands, stream and habitat restoration projects. Before joining the team at EBX, he served as an Environmental Scientist with GAI Consultants out of their Richmond, Virginia office. During his time with GAI, Aaron completed the Wetlands Training Institute where he utilized his training performing wetland delineations and stream assessments for the Marcellus Shale natural gas exploration in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He worked on an as-built crew on a gathering pipeline across the northern panhandle of West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania where he assisted a survey crew gathering pertinent elevation, grade, weld location, and pipe bend locations. Aaron holds a B.S in Agronomy concentration in Soil Science and a minor in Wetlands Assessment from North Carolina State University. Speaks is currently working on becoming licensed in the State of North Carolina as a Soil Scientist and a WPIT. He works from the Raleigh, North Carolina office.

Brad joined the RES team in 2016 to assist with the development and monitoring of mitigation projects throughout North Carolina. Brad has specialized experience in stream and wetland mitigation, riparian ecology, stream and wetland delineations, Section 404/401 permitting, and GIS.

Prior to RES, Brad worked for an environmental consulting firm in Raleigh, NC where he evaluated potential compensatory mitigation sites and also helped lead the environmental permitting and compliance efforts for multiple practice areas within the firm. Brad spent his early career as a research ecologist, working on various projects across the United States; most recently he was employed as a project manager in the Plant Functional Ecology lab, at North Carolina State University. In this role, he managed a USACE funded project on Fort Bragg Military Base that utilized prescribed fire and ecological modeling to inform natural resource management efforts for the base. He has worked on projects in North and South Carolina, Arizona, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Wisconsin.

Brad earned a BA in Environmental Science from Carthage College, and a Master’s degree in Geography from West Virginia University. He is a member of the Ecological Society of America and the North Carolina Association of Environmental Professionals.

Daniel joined RES in 2016 as a Land Representative in the North Carolina office. He has been an environmental consultant and project manager in the mitigation industry since 2007. His experience includes real estate acquisition, project management, market analysis, and business development. Daniel earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science at Berry College, where he graduated with honors. He is a member of the Society of Wetland Scientists and is a certified Wetland Professional in Training.

Sam joined RES as a land representative in 2016 where he applies his skills and interests in natural resource management in a conservation setting. Sam graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies. During that tine he worked as a project intern at the Highlands Biological Station Field Site implementing health assessments of a dwarf Juniper population facing encroachment form US Forest Service wildfire suppression. Prior to RES, Sam also was an assistant ranger at Table Rock State Park and worked as a gardener in the conservation department at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

Pennsylvania

Jon Kasitz is Northeast Account Manager for RES. Based in Pennsylvania, Jon has been working with clients to solve environmental permitting challenges for energy and public/private sector projects since he began his career. Before joining RES in January 2015, Jon worked for 11 years with RETTEW Associates, a leading provider of comprehensive integrated engineering and related consulting services, where he was Pipeline Market Manager. He holds a BS in Ecology and Biology from Millersville University in Millersville, PA.

Conor brings a strong background in large- and small-scale ecological restoration to the RES team from previous work throughout the northeast and midwest with LandStudies, Inc. and V3 Companies, Inc. respectively. As the Northeast Operations Manager Conor will be managing RES projects and operations throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. Specific responsibilities include restoration site assessment and validation, conceptual restoration plan development, project management for field development, management and oversight of field construction crews and activities, post-construction site maintenance and monitoring activities, compliance management, and cost control for field development projects.

Conor earned his Masters in Business Administration from the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University and a B.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois, where he graduated with honors.

Robert joined RES in 2015 as Communications and Government Relations Manager and is based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Robert is focused on outreach to government agencies and regulators, NGO’s, local communities, environmental consultants and permittee clients in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeast. Robert joined RES from the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, where he served as Executive Director since 2011, and directed and managed operational, budgetary, legislative and regulatory issues facing the statewide association. He also served in multiple roles with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, initially as the agency’s Legislative Liaison and later as Executive Assistant to the Agency Secretary, Director of Legislative Affairs and Community Liaison and Local Government Consultant. Robert graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Political Science and earned a Masters in Public Administration with a Policy Analysis Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

Katie coordinates with state and federal agencies to prepare and obtain the necessary permits and approvals for projects in RES Northeast region. Prior to joining RES, she spent five years working in Pittsburgh as a senior technical and permitting lead consultant for several energy clients. Previously, she worked as an environmental scientist in the Pacific Northwest region, conducting wetland delineations, sediment sampling, water quality monitoring, mitigation monitoring, and salmonid habitat restoration. Katie completed an ORISE Fellowship at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, DC, where she worked for two years in the Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds under the total maximum daily load program. She has also lived abroad, in Kamphuan, Thailand, where she carried out a watershed assessment study in association with USAID and the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Katie earned a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University, Durham, NC and a BA Geology, Magna Cum Laude, with Minors in Biology and English from Bryn Mawr College. She has completed Ohio EPA QHEI Training, Loss Prevention System Training/Certification 40-hour HAZWOPR Certification, Wetland Delineation Certification and Mountains, Valleys and Coast Regional Supplemental Seminar and Field Practicum from the Wetland Training Institute in addition to a Certificate in GIS and Geospatial Analysis from Duke University.

Amber supports permitting activities for all RES projects in the Northeast Region including assisting in the development and submittal of Mitigation Site Plans to state Interagency Review Teams and preparing Permittee Responsible Mitigation plans. Amber coordinates and prepares documents pertaining to rare, threatened and endangered species and cultural resources consultation and provides GIS assistance as necessary for preparing permit documents. Amber joins RES from Tetra Tech where as Environmental and GIS Specialist she interfaced with project management, field teams, and interdisciplinary staff members to support on-going and new projects related to environmental permitting, wetland assessment, and GIS analysis among other duties. Amber has also worked as Senior Environmental Specialist with GAI Consultants, Inc. She also completed graduate assistantships and internships with the Institute for Mine Mapping, Archival Procedures and Safety, the Indiana County Office of Planning and Development, the Energy Corporation of America, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Amber received an MS in Environmental Planning/GIS, and a BA in Environmental Geography from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has received her PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Wild Plant Management Permit, and completed Wetland Training Institute’s Field Indicators of Hydric Soils Course Certification and USACE 1987 Manual and Regional Supplements Wetland Delineation Training.

Bryan Ritti joined RES in 2016 where he is a Project Manager developing RES restoration activities in Western Pennsylvania. Bryan is a PA native and comes to RES from the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, where he managed and monitored over 67,000 acres of protected lands with the Stewardship Department while simultaneously coordinating large scale reforestation projects, agricultural leases, sustainable timber harvests, invasive species management, acid mine drainage remediation, outdoor recreation projects, and a variety of ecological restoration initiatives including Wetland Reserve Easement projects with the State of Pennsylvania.

Bryan has over 10 years of experience in the fields of land conservation, environmental consulting, ecological restoration, and agriculture. He has served on the Board of Directors for The Outdoor School and was the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Council for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Bryan is certified as a Naturalist, Urban EcoSteward, Tree Tender, Chainsaw Operator, Pesticide Applicator, and has completed 40-Hour HAZWOPER, Wilderness First Aid, and multiple 40-Hour Conflict Resolution courses. Bryan attended Penn State University, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies and was Captain of the Hockey Team. Bryan has completed additional Environmental Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Tim joined RES in 2014 with a broad range of experience in the restoration field from previous positions as Contracting Division Manager at Pizzo & Associates, Ltd., and Sales Manager at Tallgrass Restoration in the Chicago area. Most recently as Contracting Division Manager, Tim was responsible for the oversight of Project Managers, Ecologists, and Field Superintendents in the implementation and maintenance of both large and small scale restoration projects. Primary responsibilities included interaction and coordination with high level clients, ensuring successful completion of projects on-time and under budget, working with the Sales Team to successfully bid and win contracts, and the hiring and training of field staff.

As an Illinois Certified Prescribed Burn Manager, Tim was also responsible for coordinating and scheduling as many as 10 burn crews during fire season, in addition to leading fire crews in the successful and safe execution of prescribed fire in often very urban environments. Other fire responsibilities included preparing burn plans, burn permits, post burn reports, and coordinating with local authorities prior to and during prescribed fire operations.

As the Construction Manager at RES in the northeast, Tim is responsible for the successful implementation of mitigation projects in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. With a focus on meeting or exceeding project schedules and budgets, he will be overseeing RES field crews and subcontractors during the construction phase of mitigation. He solicits bids, negotiates, and executes contracts with subcontractors; coordinates with RES permitting staff and consultants during the design and permitting phase; and ensures safety, efficiency, quality control, and permit compliance during construction.

Tim earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Plant and Soil Science with a concentration in Horticulture from Southern Illinois University in 2005.

Michael is a land representative, based in the Pittsburgh area. Michael works to identify prospective lands for wetland and stream restoration activities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Michael’s experiences range from consumer and product marketing to economic analysis and business writing, most recently in the Czech Republic. He graduated from the University of Montevallo with a B.A. in Political Science and a concentration in International Relations.

Zachary Gray came to RES in the summer of 2013 as a Land Representative. Based in RES Canonsburg, PA office, Zachary is a Pennsylvania native who earned his B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology from Allegheny College. He has worked as both a title agent and as land leasing agent in Pennsylvania since 2011. Prior to land work, Zachary was a project director at AmeriCorps VISTA, United Way of Western Crawford County, in the Meadville, PA area. He is a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and has been active in the Crawford Area Young Chamber of Commerce.

Bill supervisors workers and operates equipment on various field site restoration projects throughout the Northeast region. Bill and his teams conduct site preparation activities that prepare land for successful restoration efforts. Oversight for field labor activities includes plant installation, erosion control product installation, vegetative maintenance, and herbicide application. He also provides construction oversight; including day-to-day sub-contractor oversight, grade control verification, erosion and sediment control monitoring and reporting, and general construction quality control. Bill worked as a Biological Science Technician with the National Park Service at the Gettysburg National Military Park and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore after working as a Wetland Ecologist with V3 Companies of Illinois.

With 15 years of survey experience, and extensive knowledge of AutoCAD, GPS and EDM, Ryan conducts survey work for RES properties in the Northeast including easement and boundary surveys, stream and wetland surveys, construction stake outs, construction monitoring and quality control, and as-built surveys. Ryan joined RES from Allstate Surveying and Mapping. He graduated with honors from Westmoreland County Community College as Associate in Applied Science, Architectural Drafting and Design and earned a BA History from Saint Vincent College.

Building on his passion for the health of freshwater systems, Shawyn supports the Northeast Region as field biologist. He works to qualify suitable wetland and stream restoration sites through macroinvertebrate sampling, stream and wetland delineation activities and operational GIS support. Shawyn also monitors restored habitats for successful performance. Shawyn is a graduate of Slippery Rock University’s Environmental Geoscience. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Science-Conservation Biology at Duquesne University.

Brad came to RES during Spring 2016 to lead our field safety activities for the award-winning Robinson Fork Mitigation Bank project. Brad came to RES from HRL Compliance Solutions where he was responsible for field environmental, health, safety and reporting for different types of projects including underground pipelines, overhead utility lines, well pads, compressor stations and industrial fencing. Brad conducted wetland delineations, obtained required government permits, conducted safety audits and developed job safety plans.
Brad will aid RES efforts to maintain a safe workspace for our most complex restoration project. Brad graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and has been trained in OSHA 30-hour, HAZWOPER 40-hour, H2S awareness and PEC Safeland among other safety courses.

James joined RES full time in November 2015 after working for RES in field operations supporting ecological restoration activities. James earned a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science from Saint Vincent College. He has applied his knowledge to his career as an environmental and GIS intern and later as GIS supervisor at Saint Vincent College. James delivered environmental education and water sampling and testing services at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve prior to joining RES.

Following a season with RES field operations in southwestern Pennsylvania, Cory joined RES full time as a field crew leader. In this role, Cory leads field delivery of RES ecological offset mitigation sites. Cory received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Juniata College. He worked twice as a Natural Resource Specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where he managed invasive and pest species and maintained habitats and ideal food sources for local wildlife. Later, Cory performed wildlife surveys including mist net surveys and acoustic call monitoring surveys with Bat Conservation and Management.

Nik provides GIS analysis and field technical support for delivery of permits which are required by federal, state and local agencies including Joint Permit Applications, Nationwide Permits, General Permits, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits for construction activities. He assists in wetland delineations, delineation report preparation and Jurisdictional Determination site visits. Nik also provides local site technical support. Prior to RES, Nik was a Habitat Specialist at Habitat Forever where he worked in partnership with local farmers and NRCS to use maximum potential of farmland while protecting streams, habitat, and livestock.

Nik attended Drexel University and Penn State University and graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Environmental Studies with focus areas in Leadership and GIS.

Zach serves as an operator and field technician for the Northeast operations team. He operates equipment including all terrain utility vehicles, tractors, skid loaders, and track-hoes and executes field labor activities including plant installation, erosion control product installation, vegetative maintenance, and herbicide application. Zach provides crew management and oversight and ensures all plants, erosion control products, and any maintenance work is conducted to specification.

He joined RES from the Davey Tree Expert Company where he was a Plant Health Care Technician. Zach’s prior experience includes time with the Indiana University of Pennsylvania as Golden-winged Warbler Habitat Manager and as a Forestry Intern for the Southwest and North Central Regions at the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Zach graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelors Degree in Forest Management, Agricultural Sciences.

Nick supports the Northeast team as GIS and CAD analyst. He has received training in ESRI, AutoCAD, Microstation, In-Roads, and Revit (Architecture, Structural, MEP). Nick received his Associate in Science Degree, Computer Aided Drafting from the Pittsburgh Technical Institute.

South Carolina

David Phillips is a 1975 graduate of The Citadel, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Mr. Phillips also holds a North Carolina Real Estate license, and has taken a multitude of Forestry Management courses through the University of Georgia Intensive Forestry Management program. After a successful 18 year commercial banking career, David chose to go into the timber business pursuing both the forester and procurement duties necessary to acquire stumpage for two logging operations, earning dealerships with national pulpwood companies as well as pine and hardwood sawmills in both North and South Carolina. Emphasis was on thinning pine stands as well as a swamp crew harvesting dimensional pine and hardwood logs. Phillips was featured by John Deere Forestry Equipment in its national advertising campaign for one of his pine thinning projects, and another project was featured in Southern Logging Times magazine as one of the top swamp logging jobs operating in southeastern NC at the time. During this period, he was asked to invest in and be majority owner of an outdoor advertising company, which worked with landowners to develop revenue through billboard placements. After several years of hard work, this company grew to 24 employees in seven offices across the country and a national sales office in Chicago. In 2006, David joined the EBX team to utilize his extensive experience working with rural landowners. In this role he has assisted landowners throughout the Carolinas to realize value from conservation easements while maintaining the working nature of their property.

Curtis joined RES in 2015 serving as a Land Representative and Operations Manager operating out of the Charleston, SC office. His duties as a land representative include conducting land analysis, acquiring potential wetland and stream mitigation sites, and maintaining excellent landowner relationships. As an operations manager, Curtis is responsible for developing client-oriented solutions through project site preparation, construction, maintenance, and monitoring.

Prior to joining RES, Curtis worked as a Senior Landman for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration company, in the Surface Land Department. He has over 7 years of oil and gas upstream and midstream experience across Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Additionally, he has extensive experience managing recreational land and timber properties.

Curtis, a native eastern North Carolinian, received a B.A. in Business Administration from Rhodes College in 2008. He is a certified Registered Professional Landman and Eagle Scout.

Texas

Kari Sutton join RES in May 2016 to lead account management activities for Texas. Kari is a strategic environmental professional with over 18 years of experience. Kari brings to RES her experiences with project permitting for Kinder Morgan and in environmental consulting with PBS&J. She earned a BS and MS in Wildlife Biology from Texas State University and has proven project planning and solution delivery experience in a diverse range of markets in Texas and throughout the US. Examples of her large-scale project work include coastal industrial terminal facilities, FERC-regulated LNG terminals and natural gas pipelines, ship channel improvement projects, and Texas state veterans’ cemeteries. Ms. Sutton has provided NEPA and regulatory compliance support to the USACE, USFWS, EPA, USFS, NMFS, FERC, VA, NPS, and public and private clients. Technical experience includes wetland determinations/delineations, threatened and endangered species surveys (plants and animals), habitat assessments, and baseline studies (avian, botanical, and mammalian). Baseline and impact investigations have included projects for prospective electrical and water transmission lines; highways; natural gas pipelines; conveyors; fiber-optic corridors; mines; power plants; LNG facilities; deep water channels; mitigation areas; and institutional, residential, and commercial development sites.

Aaron is based in the Houston office and oversees the regulatory processes that enable RES to deliver mitigation solutions, primarily in Texas. He evaluates potential mitigation sites, develops mitigation plans, and works with agencies and other stakeholders to produce approved mitigation solutions.
Prior to joining RES, Aaron gained 9 years of experience as a Senior Environmental Scientist and Project Manager at URS Corporation. At URS he specialized in environmental compliance and biological investigations, including: Clean Water Act permitting, FERC environmental reporting, NEPA compliance, and agency consultations primarily for the oil and gas industry. Aaron earned a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in 2001, and a PhD in Botany with a minor in Remote Sensing of the Environment from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2006. His graduate research focused on wetland ecology and management of invasive species.

Virginia

T.J. Mascia joined the RES team in 2015 as both our Nutrients Segment Manager and Virginia Account Manager. Based in Richmond, Virginia, T.J. leads company efforts to grow the water quality trading and nutrient credits market and also lead our sales and account management activities by supplying ecological offsets to permittees throughout Virginia.

Since 2009, T.J. has been a practicing attorney in Virginia, first at Hunton & Williams LLP and most recently with Troutman Sanders, LLP, where he counseled clients on topics related to CWA Section 404 compliance and also facilitated the formulation of the National Water Quality Trading Alliance. He has also been lead counsel to the Virginia Mitigation Banking Association.

T.J. received his B.A. in Environmental Studies from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his Masters in Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chair, Environmental and Energy Law Section for the Richmond Bar Association. He is also a member of Virginia Bar Association, a member of the Advisory Board for the Capital Region Land Conservancy and is a LEED Green Associate.

Aaron leads RES efforts to provide solutions for Natural Resource Damage and enforcement actions and is both account manager and team leader. Aaron joined RES in 2015 to aid in solution delivery and market development. Aaron has 18 years of experience managing and implementing “green” strategies within real estate.

Prior to joining the RES team, he founded and successfully grew an ecosystem services company based in Richmond, VA. During those 8 years, he primarily worked in the southeast and the west coast securing nearly 10,000 acres of environmental mitigation project lands with habitat to protect and restore over 4,100 acres of wetlands, 60 miles of streams, and at least 12 threatened / endangered species. He has worked with numerous resource agencies, landowners, municipalities, and private and public clients in the implementation of ecosystem services projects.

Aaron served on the Virginia DEQ stakeholder panel to develop the initial Nutrient Trading program for the state. He currently serves a co-chair on the Natural Resources Damages Subcommittee for the National Mitigation Banking Association, working to improve access to restoration projects for Trustees and private entities needing to address resource injuries.

Earlier, he spent several years as Director of Environmental initiatives for East West Partners in Lake Tahoe. There he defined and implemented companywide initiatives toward sustainable business branding and entitled projects including the Ritz-Carlton Highlands and Northstar ski village.

Aaron holds a M.B.A from the Darden School of Business, a Masters in Environmental Planning from the School of Architecture, and a B.A. in Environmental Science, all from the University of Virginia. He is a LEED accredited professional with 4 LEED certified projects to his credit. Aaron serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Region Land Conservancy in Richmond, VA.

Joe helps RES develop and supply water quality and mitigation solutions. He has worked with numerous resource agencies, landowners, municipalities, investors and private and public credit buyers in the implementation of mitigation projects. Joe has worked on numerous resource mitigation projects and negotiated and implemented mitigation banking instruments in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and California.

Joe has a long history delivering mitigation solutions as a co-founder of Environmental Banc and Exchange (EBX) in 1997. Earlier, Carroll was a Vice President in the Capital Markets Divisions of both Bank of America and Wachovia Corp. Mr. Carroll received his B.A. and M.B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Charles joined RES in 2015 as a Land Representative based in the Richmond office, where he works with Virginia landowners to qualify and distribute land-based solutions for wetland and stream restoration projects as well as nutrient reduction sites. Since joining the RES team in 2015, he has over 37,000 linear feet of stream under contract for restoration and has helped create four new nutrient reduction banks to reduce phosphorus/nitrogen runoff into the Chesapeake Bay.
Prior to joining RES, Charles spent decade in business development roles at Carter Machinery Corporation, Allied Concrete Company, and Martin Marietta Materials. He graduated with a B.S. in Agricultural Business Management from North Carolina State University in 2006, and is a licensed Virginia Real Estate Salesperson.
Charles is passionate about the conservation of our resources and is an active member of Delta Waterfowl, Coastal Conservation Association, and Trout Unlimited.

West Virginia

Kevin Roush works in the Oak Hill, West Virginia office as Appalachia Account Manager, where he manages the proposal and implementation of stream and wetland mitigation projects in Northern Appalachia. Prior to joining EBX, Mr. Roush worked as an Environmental Biologist for one of the nation’s leading diversified energy producers. He has an extensive knowledge of the coal and natural gas industry and its related environmental impacts. Roush has managed the construction of numerous permittee-responsible stream mitigation projects in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. His experiences include water quality monitoring, biological stream monitoring, passive water treatment system development, natural stream channel design review and jurisdictional delineation reviews. Kevin holds a B.S. in Biology from Alderson-Broaddus University in Philippi, West Virginia.

Kristy is the Construction Manager for RES West Virginia where she is responsible for the success and implementation of our mitigation projects through the construction, monitoring and maintenance phases. Kristy is an experienced hands-on project manager, having delivered many successful wetland and stream projects. She was instrumental in gaining approval and implementing the first two stream and wetland mitigation banks in the state of West Virginia. Prior to RES' acquisition of EBX, Kristy worked for the prior ten years as a Project Manager and for four years as a Hydrologic Technician with the United States Geological Survey. Her responsibilities have included site search and land acquisition, landowner negotiations, mitigation plan development for obtaining CWA Section 404 permits, project development including feasibility and design reviews, coordinating credit sales, overseeing consultants and contractors, project budgets and schedules, coordinating and interfacing with state and federal agencies, technical report and regulatory filings, field data collection, vegetative inventories, maintenance and remedial action plans. Kristy holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Jessica is a permitting analyst with RES focusing on mitigation site plan and permittee responsible mitigation Plan development; where she works with state and federal agencies to obtain the necessary permits for these projects. Prior to joining RES, Jessica spent 5 years as the Senior Aquatic Biologist at West Virginia environmental consulting firm performing stream delineations, water and macroinvertebrate sampling, creating mitigation plans and obtaining state and federal permits.
Jessica has worked with the Upper Susquehanna Coalition and the Isaac Walton League of America on vernal pool research projects and environmental education. Jessica has a B.S. in Environmental Policy and Management and an M.P.S. in Water and Wetland Resources, both from SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, NY.

Jared is a field biologist supporting RES ecological restoration activities throughout West Virginia. Jared joined RES in February 2016 and is delivering mitigation monitoring on natural stream design banks, assessing potential bat habitat, and conducting stream and wetland delineations. He came to RES after working with Alliance consulting as an assistant project scientist addressing fish, bat and benthic macroinvertebrate sampling, field pipeline monitoring, and conducting bat species habitat monitoring int=clouding telemetry and mist net studies. Jared has previously worked as an intern with both the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and West Virginia University. He is trained in wetland delineation and bat acoustic techniques and has completed coursework in advanced wildlife techniques.